I care for kids, families, the sick and the elderly, working class, middle class, and every American. To end poverty and advance the American Dream, I am Libertarian Girl.
One of the bills the Humane Society is really pushing now is the Truth in Fur Labeling Act of 2009. This closes a loophole in federal law which was widened under Clinton in 1998, when the amount of money a garment had to be worth to be labeled with its fur content was increased from [...]
I met a New York attorney at a conference over the weekend. When discussing the rabbis and mayors arrested in New Jersey, she mentioned that she didn’t want to live in a society where poor people felt like they had to sell their organs, and that these people shouldn’t be taken advantage of or made [...]
… For $48,000, down from $2 million two years ago and equivalent to the drop “from about the price of a luxury sedan to, well, the price of a slightly less luxurious nice car.”
Thus, we have a perfect example of the free market at work.
If the government had gotten involved to “usher the technology along,” [...]
Leave it to Joe the Plumber to explain, essentially, the fundamental problem with many of Obama’s economic plans.
Joe the Plumber is the perfect messenger: he’s not a Wall Street banker or a lawyer or even a doctor. His name is actually Joe, and he provides an important, if un-glamourous, service: plumbing. No one becomes [...]
Note: Libertarian Girl is off to Europe, but while she’s away she’ll be updating with previously written posts about politics and life in the places she’s visiting. She’ll soon be back to her regularly scheduled Libertarian Girl programming.
Today, I head from two extremes: venturing from the very Eastern-European Bratislava, Slovakia into Vienna, Austria, the capital [...]
Of course Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Republican. That can mean a lot of different things to different people. He certainly cared enough about distinguishing himself as that that he did not become a Democrat once marrying into the Kennedy family, which would have been understandable in a way.
He’s hard to pin down as the [...]
Would the poor prosper better in a libertarian society than they do now? I believe so. Here’s why:
The current system often benefits the rich and special interests, not the poor.
The “War on Drugs” disproportionately places poor people in prison for non-violent crimes, separating families and ruining lives.
The inflation tax is a tax no politician [...]
Sean Gabb of the UK’s Libertarian Alliance writes:
“There are those who think libertarianism involves a defence of riches and of the rich. Some libertarians seem to agree. I do not. A libertarian is someone who wants to be left alone, and who wants to leave others alone, and who wants others to be left alone. [...]
This is the conclusion of my two-part series discussing why science would be better if it left government funding behind. In the first post, I discussed why government should not be given control of scientists’ work, what government have done when they did have this control, what they will continue to do, and how [...]
“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by federal government project allocation, and the power of money, is ever present, and is gravely to be regarded.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The government should stay out of science completely. Science, scientists, taxpayers, and the world would be better off for it. Research scientists are usually [...]